Famous quotes containing the words traditions of, city and/or traditions:

“And all the great traditions of the PastThey saw reflected in the coming time.

And thus forever with reverted lookThe mystic volume of the world they read,Spelling it backward, like a Hebrew book,Till life became a Legend of the Dead.”—Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (18091882)

“Here far from the city we make our roadside standAnd ask for some city money to feel in handTo try if it will not make our being expand,And give us the life of the moving-pictures promiseThat the party in power is said to be keeping from us.”—Robert Frost (18741963)

“I think a Person who is thus terrifyed [sic] with the Imagination of Ghosts and Spectres much more reasonable, than one who contrary to the Reports of all Historians sacred and profane, ancient and modern, and to the Traditions of all Nations, thinks the Appearance of Spirits fabulous and groundless.”—Joseph Addison (16721719)